Chapter 27: If I Had Not Seen the Sun
"For someone who came from outside, I was not welcomed, I could not find shelter, I could not enter the safe zone, and I was not welcome in the refugee camp.
I built a shack out of planks next to the camp and settled down with weeds as a bed to protect against the cold, and for an eight-year-old girl, life was very difficult, and I had to rely on myself, and I experienced how hard it was for my mother to be alone.
That winter, it was very cold, the roots of the weeds and trees were buried in a thick layer of snow, and food was hard to find, and I was cold and hungry, and prayed to everyone who came out of the camp to ask them to give me some food.
No one helped me, but instead gave me countless taunts and insults, and I braced my weak body and dug in the nearby snow in an attempt to find a little to eat.
No food could be found, and I collapsed at the gate of the camp with hunger and cold, and fell headlong into the snow, without even the strength to get up.
The people in the camp saw it, and I knew that no one would take care of me, the people of this era, so cold that I couldn't imagine it, and maybe someone would carry my body back to store after I froze to death.
My eyelids were getting heavier and heavier, and I knew that I was not far from death, and that I could see my mother again.
There are no people and things in the world that are worthy of my nostalgia, after my mother left, I can't experience a trace of warmth in this strange world, cold-blooded, ruthless, dark, cold is my personal experience.
In a trance, I saw a small figure, he quarreled with the person next to him, regardless of the adult's obstruction, broke away from the person around him and ran towards me.
The next second, a pair of small hands helped me up, and he stumbled and panted to support me, and I thought he must have used all his strength.
He helped me back into the shack, and I looked at him weakly, it was a childish face, it felt a little smaller than mine, and his eyes were very pure, very warm, I hadn't seen them in a long time.
He helped me to light the fire, took out a piece of hard bread from my body, and put it on my hand.
The adults around him scolded him for wasting food, and then pulled him back, and when he left, he shouted to me: "Little sister, be strong, people in adversity never lack the courage to live, hope is in the next second." ”
I silently ate the bread in my hand, and laughed in my heart, I laughed at his childishness, laughed at his ignorance.
Hopefully? It's been gone for a long time, he must have lived a very happy life, he has not experienced the warmth and coldness of the world, and no desperate child can say such childish words.
From that day on, the little boy would come to see me every day, and each time he would bring me a little food, and talk to me a lot, and I would be happy to talk to him, in order to get some food from him in this winter when food was hard to find.
The little boy told me a lot about himself, and it turned out that he had no parents since he was a child, and that he had been picked up by an old hunter in the camp, and the hunter told him that he was not good, but only hoped that someone would provide for him.
He needs to go outside every day to pick up a lot of branches, and if he can't pick up enough, he will be beaten and scolded by hunters, and he will often be instructed by other children to work, bullying and beating are more common, but he is very optimistic, very cheerful, and faces this cold world with hope and smiles every day.
He always brought me bruised bread with a hard piece of bread, and I learned later that the old hunter would not allow him to do so, but he did not change, and the old hunter beat him, and the bread was his food for a day, and after he gave it to me, he would go to the garbage heap to find food.
I really can't bear to lie to him, I told him that everyone is selfish, and you must learn to be cruel to live in this world, and it will be difficult for you to live in this world after your kindness and kindness.
He always retorted to me with a smile, it's not people who are selfish, it's this era, it forces everyone to live as selfish, but I won't give in, I have my own code of conduct and bottom line in life, I know how to distinguish between good and evil.
I will not save the wicked.
I have to admit that the boy changed me little by little with his actions, tearing a hope in my heart that was about to die, in this cold world without humanity, he was like a ray of sunshine, tearing through the darkness and shining on me.
I went out with him to pick up branches, worked together, and even been beaten and scolded together.
He would always share the food that the hunter gave him, and I would also be the first to appear with him when he was driven out by the hunter, and if the food was not enough, we would go to the garbage heap together, and go to the snow to dig weeds together.
That winter, because of him, I was no longer cold, because of him, I felt warm, and because of him, I had the confidence to live again.
Winter has finally passed, spring has returned to the earth, and everything has recovered.
I could find more food and not have to go hungry anymore, but the little boy was driven out of the refugee camp with bruises, and the old hunter who had fed him had been killed by wild beasts while he was out hunting.
Without the protection of the old hunter, the little boy struggled to move in the refugee camp, his family's food was robbed, and his only place to live was robbed.
I took him to my care, and that day, he didn't sleep all night, and the next day, he asked me if he was wrong in his thoughts and practices, and that the wilderness world doesn't need kindness, no hope.
He said he wanted to be a selfish person, he wanted to be a wicked person.
I told him that he was right, that he had always been, that it was someone else who was wrong, and the little boy was silent for a long time, his eyes darkened a little, and I knew that the insistence in his heart had wavered.
From that day on, the two of us lived together, supporting each other and taking care of each other, and I was secretly determined to protect him and not let him suffer.
My strength is getting stronger day by day, and the progress of my cultivation is also faster, and as my strength increases, I have the ability to hunt and take care of him for the rest of my life.
I refused his request to go hunting with me, I didn't want him to be close to blood, I didn't want him to experience the cold of the world again, I wanted to carry the whole darkness for him, because I was afraid that the sun in his heart would be extinguished. ”
After Shen Xiaoyue finished speaking, tears were already streaming down her face, her eyes were gentle, she looked at Chen Mo with red eyes, and said softly: "I can bear the darkness forever, if I have never seen the sun."
Your insistence is right, if it weren't for you, I would have died a long time ago, it was you who gave me hope to live and let me see that light.
The world needs sunshine, and I want to always stand in front of you, cleave all the difficulties for you, and let your sunshine dispel the darkness of the world.
Promise me, protect your own sunshine, don't succumb to this era, all the darkness, sister will face it for you. ”